Weezer - Pork and Beans - not just a mashup of youtube celebrities
Check this out:
Weezer - Pork and Beans
It features many YouTube stars and Internet memes, including:
- Gary Brolsma in Numa Numa.
- Matt McAllister
- Mark Allen Hicks ("Afro Ninja"),
- Chris Crocker in Leave Britney Alone.
- Caitlin Upton
- Judson Laipply
- Kicesie
- Tay Zonday in Chocolate Rain.
- Kevin Federline
- K-Fed Popozao
- Liam Kyle Sullivan on Shoes
- Ryan Weiber vs. Michael "Dorkman" Scott
- Jeong-Hyun Lim
- Star Wars kid
- Dramatic Prairie Dog
- lookalikes of J-Pop group Mini Moni
- Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz's Diet Coke and Mentos eruptions
- parody G.I. Joe PSAs
- catching Raybans with one's face
- Free Hugs Campaign
- Dancing Banana
- Will It Blend?
- All Your Base Are Belong to Us
- One Man Band by Connor Berge
- Daft Hands
- Daft Bodies
- the Sneezing Panda
- Soulja Boy dance a CGI
- Donald Duck and King Kong
- Charlie the Unicorn
- Miss Teen USA 2007 South Carolina “Answers” a Question
- the UFO sighting in Haiti Hoax video.
Now, it's been really easy for people to target geeks on youtube: make a video full of internet stars and cameo appeaerances, and it will go viral, right? Wrong. This video has much more to it. First of all the song is great. As the LS Times states, on the surface, Weezer’s quirky new “Pork and Beans” video, which has helped create a wave of buzz for the band’s new album, is just another example of how to make a good viral video. You take an idea that people are going to talk about, mix in some famous faces, throw in an embarrassing moment or two, and watch as your firework climbs, explodes, and inevitably fades out.
But “Pork and Beans” is more than just another drop in the viral bucket. In a way that no work of culture has previously done, the video weaves a masterful tapestry of Internet “memes,” bringing together the oddball shorthands of web culture with many of the oddballs who created them. Director Mathew Cullen managed to wrangle a dozen of YouTube’s most recognizable viral stars and bring them all onto one surreal soundstage. The result – a chorus of voices singing about how they refuse to be ridiculed, judged or labeled – is unexpectedly compelling, and even literary.
























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